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In the case of scab, the animals are not only dipped, but a little 

 of the undissolved dip is rubbed in wherever the scab shows 

 itself. 



Not to detain you too long, I found that in Texas, this article 

 proved death to all insect life, or rendered the locality, as in the 

 case of floors and carpets to fleas; cupboards, &c., washed with it, 

 to roaches, ants, &c.; colts and calves, to woodticks; the chicken 

 house and nests, to the louse; bedsteads to bedbugs; the cotton 

 plant, on which a solution was sprinkled with a common watering 

 pot, and upon which plants thus treated, not another egg was laid, 

 to the cotton moth; and above all, I never had occasion to make a 

 second application to an animal attacked by that cruel pest of our 

 flocks, the screw worm. 



That no animal, and especially sheep, swine and young stock of 

 all kinds, will thrive or fatten, or even breed freely, when infested 

 or troubled at all by vermin, is a fact known to every farmer. 



I found that in Great Britain, pigs pent up to fatten, and indeed 

 all swine, were frequently washed with this soap, to prevent the 

 louse. Cows in dairies, horses in stables, dogs both in kennels and 

 at large, were washed with it, as often as might be necessary to 

 keep off the flies, for no fly will alight upon anything, living or 

 dead, that is thus treated. In this climate, in summer, it may be 

 well to let the lather dry on, in the case of dairy cows, &c. 



To foot rot, this cresylic acid, used in the shape of an ointment, 

 is an infallible cure, and the value of the discovery is enhanced 

 beyond computation, by the fact that the effect of the application 

 continues for a considerable length of time. I have no idea that 

 sheep, for example, dipped or poured before being guarded or 

 housed for the winter, would need a second application until shear- 

 ing time. 



I found its healing effects upon all sores, from the most offen- 

 sively gangrenous to a fresh cut, to be really wonderful. In 

 Europe there is as much, or more claimed for this acid as an anti- 

 septic, a disinfectant and general purifier, as for its effects on 

 insect and fungus life. 



For my part, I have not a doubt from what I have seen, and 

 from my own experiments, that trees and plants syringed with a 

 solution of this cheap compound, would be completely protected 

 from the attacks of insects of nearly all kinds. I have no idea that 

 the fly or midge would ever deposit an egg in a wheat field 

 sprinkled over with a solution of this compound. 



